Sunday, May 18, 2025

“breaking news: amid the 'famine' on the gaza strip, a brand new ice cream store has opened” (graphic)


Re-posted by N.S.





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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Chocolate camel chips ice cream is a big seller.

--GRA

Monday, May 19, 2025 at 12:03:00 AM EDT
Anonymous said...

TAKE 2(MILLION);"SYRIA ON THE VERGE OF CIVIL WAR"(AGAIN).

(ZH)US Secretary of State Marco Rubio last Thursday met with Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani and other ruling Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) officials in Antalya, Turkey - just as President Trump controversially greeted Syria's new ruler Ahmed al-Sharaa (Jolani) in Riyadh. Rubio's was the first such US meeting with a Syrian foreign minister in fifteen years, the State Department later said.

Following this, Rubio on Tuesday went before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to defend the administration's dropping of all Syria sanctions, in order to "give them a chance" - as Trump said of Syria while on his Gulf visit. Rubio sounded an alarm, warning that the already war-torn country could be weeks away from civil war and collapse of the HTS government. Watch:


"It is our assessment that, frankly, the transitional authority, given the challenges they’re facing, are maybe weeks — not many months — away from potential collapse and a full-scale civil war of epic proportions, basically the country splitting up," Rubio told the Senate hearing. There have for weeks been running street battles between HTS and Druze factions in the south and in suburbs of Damascus.


Describing the rationale behind dropping the years-long brutal US sanctions, Rubio said: "We want to help that government succeed, because the alternative is full-scale civil war and chaos, which would, of course, destabilize the entire region."

Of course, the supreme and dark irony here is that it was Washington which led destabilization efforts in Syria over the last decade in the first place, with the CIA's Operation Timber Sycamore. Assad fled the country on December 8, and since then the brutal Islamist group HTS and US-designated terrorist Sharaa/Jolani has ruled from Damascus.

GRA:Nothing changes in the Mideast.

--GRA

Tuesday, May 20, 2025 at 3:20:00 PM EDT

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